Color de natural for Spring twenty ten with neutral eyes, flushed pink cheeks and Chapstick lips. Well, not totally, but achieving your most natural look starts from the inside out. So it’s back to the basics: sleep, drink, wash. Making sure you are adequately rested and your skin has had time to form shiny new cells. Staying hydrated truly makes you glow. Washing off your make-up at night, so you don’t wake up with blackheads and wrinkles. Pretty simple stuff, but basics we sometimes forget when we are rushing around.

Then on your clean, glowing facial palette, moisturize. Clogged pores tend to result from dry, dead skin cells clogging the poor, so choose a skin type-appropriate moisturizer and be liberal. Around the eyes, never pull from the inner eye out. When removing make-up or applying eye cream, always dab gently from the corners inward. Even out skin tone with foundaiton or concealer and use a little rosy blush. We aren’t seeing much bronzer on the runways or red carpet as the look is softer and more effervescent. A few coats of mascara and you could be ready to go. If you feel too nude, then line your eyes with a soft brown or blue rather than a harsh black and paint your pout with something sassy. Because the face has less color, choose something pinky for your lips. A totally bare lip can wash out your face and looks best with a dark, smokey eye.

Your done and have an extra ten or fifteen minutes to read the paper, enjoy your coffee or walk to work.

Emma Dinzebach

The 80’s married the 90’s and spit out the Giles Spring 2010 runway collection complete with punk rock hair. Pink and green locks topped off their beautiful runway models. Color accents and crazy cuts seem to be around every corner from Rhianna to Rachel McAdams to my Romanian dry cleaner. My own stylist buzzed underneath his hair, setting a trend in my salon with even female stylists following suit.

Short hair is obviously the easiest to punk out because you can spike it all craziness and colored pieces aren’t  as loud when they have a funky backdrop. But consult a stylist before you chop. Short hair cuts are best suited for people with a) beautiful faces and b) distinct feature(s). Leaving the top longer provides some chic softening. If you are intent on keeping it long, think Ramone’s shag cut, bang it up (like Kiera Knightly) or add a little neon in your life. These opportunities only come up every few decades, so you may as well take a walk on the wild side. Buzzing underneath allows for both long and short cuts, but really only works on thick hair. (Trust me, I tried to get it and he said it would make my fine hair look like paper.) The underneath cut looks rad pulled to one side and even better with the longer pieces highlighted.

And remember, it grows back.

Emma Dinzebach

For hours you curl, kink, scrunch and walk very, very still as not to loose your laborious man-made curls. Eventually they fall from curl to wave and finally straight. Your efforts lost. Sure you can perma curl (gag) or perma straighten, but that takes a perma toll on your tresses. Until now. Enter the fantastic frock discovery that could abolish perma treatments and change the nature of your hair.
Last month, London’s Daily Mail announced that researchers at Australia’s Queensland Institute of Medical Research discovered the gene that predicts curly hair. The trichohyalin gene, formerly known to affect hair development, apparently determines whether hair will be curly or straight.

For beauty, the scientific discovery means that eventually we might be able develop mechanisms to make hair curlier to more straight. Bye bye Brazilian Keratin. Sayonara straighteners and serums. Soon it will be all pop a pill for curly, pop a pill for straight.

And more importantly, the discovery could refine DNA identity kits helping forensic specialists determine whether perpetrators have straight or curly hair.

Emma Dinzebach 

Your friend has the straightest, shiniest, healthiest hair. She attributes her commercial-worthy locks to $250 Brazilian Keratin mastermind Faisal at Laicale salon in Soho. For the past year you’ve been spending a pretty penny on your locks, but it’s almost Hanukkah. You need to reorganize your budget to accommodate gift purchases, but you still want to look lovely for your holiday parties.
Ever-popular keratin hair treatments use the hair’s natural proteins (er, keratin) at the same pH level as your normal hair to strengthen, nourish and provide UV protection for your hair. Brazilian Keratin Treatment (BKT) leaves hair frizz free, soft and shiny for up to four months. Kertatin treatments can be performed on chemically treated hair, previously relaxed hair, permed and virgin hair.  (Note: It is super important to make sure Keratin treatments are received from reputable salons as treatments that have sulfide, chloride or formaldehyde can permanently damage hair and lead to hair loss.)

This is your lucky season. Empire Beauty School, with locations in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens, is offering the famed treatment from now until New Year’s Eve for $48. No, srsly. No, for real. Advanced students performing treatments are strictly supervised by salon professionals. Empire’s BKT is safe for all hair types (see also: won’t make your hair fall out) and produces shampoo commercial-worthy locks for the holiday season.

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